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Children’s Place Inc.’s stock dropped 19% on Tuesday after the struggling store’s profit almost halved from the same time last year. The company continued to cut costs and pull away from businesses that weren’t making money to try to make more money. Gymboree, Sugar & Jade, and PJ Place are all owned by the Secaucus, NJ-based company PLCE -22.60%. The company has been trying to turn things around since February, when Saudi Arabia’s Mithaq Capital bought a 54% stake and fired the company’s senior CEO. Muhammad Umair, who has a background in finance and was put on the company’s board…

Super Micro Computer makes servers. In November, the price of its stock rose more than 20%. On Monday, it was going down again after a big drop on Friday. Still, the world’s biggest hedge fund was interested in the stock. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bridgewater Associates increased its shares of Super Micro, Palantir Technologies PLTR 1.56%, and Advanced Micro Devices AMD 0.69% in the third quarter. During that time, it sold 2.15 percent of its Nvidia stock. While everyone is talking about AI companies, Super Micro’s price has been going up and down a…

Last year, people in the US bought about 15.5 million cars. Cox Automotive, the company that owns Kelley Blue Book, says they’re on track to buy 16 million this year. People in the US buy cars now that election season is over. Charlie Chesbrough, senior economist at Cox Automotive, says that many people who wanted to buy a car stayed home during the stressful election season. “With the U.S. election behind us, we may see strong vehicle sales as the year comes to a close,” Consumer trust is rising because the market is less uncertain, which means more people are…

The star of “The Holiday,” Jude Law, has revealed a shocking truth about the cute house that played a big role in his 2006 Christmas movie hit: the picture-perfect property doesn’t exist. In the popular holiday movie, Law, 51, played a handsome widower who falls in love with an American woman visiting the UK for the holidays. He also acted with Cameron Diaz, Jack Black, and Kate Winslet. The woman in question, played by Diaz, does a house swap with Winslet’s character, who lives in a charming Surrey dwelling nestled in the heart of the British countryside. When “The Holiday” came…

Some people like Groucho Marx said, “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.” This made me think of that quote as I read one strategist’s complaint. There is now “consensus” that everything President-elect Trump does is “just a start” of his negotiations. This makes me worry that the market has become too relaxed. “We were arguing for this view, but it’s amazing how quickly it seems to have become a trade that everyone agrees on,” says Peter Tchir of Academy Securities. Everyone has also agreed on what they think will happen in the U.S.…

Shares of Delivery Hero fell sharply on Monday after the company, which is based in Germany and delivers food, said it would start treating its Spanish riders like workers. It was announced today that Glovo has chosen to switch its delivery riders in Spain from working as freelancers to full-time employees. This is to avoid more legal uncertainty that could lead to more problems, the company said in a statement. Glovo is the Spanish name of Delivery Hero. The company said it expects a €100 million ($105 million) effect on its adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation for…

Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, is dealing with increased competition from bespoke chips. According to a BofA analyst, worries over Nvidia have driven the stock’s valuation close to historically low levels, which means significant gains may be ahead. The forward price-to-earnings multiple for the semiconductor manufacturer’s (NVDA) shares is currently around 25. Vivek Arya of BofA stated in a note on Monday that this is comparable to earlier recent “troughs” in October 2023 and July 2022. When the stock’s multiple hit these levels in the past, the forward P/E “usually rebounded” to a range between 30 and 40 in…

Tuesday saw a 15% increase in Bayer shares after the U.S. solicitor general supported the company’s attempt to persuade the Supreme Court to limit lawsuits claiming that its Roundup pesticide causes cancer. According to analysts, the action will help the German corporation settle lawsuits pertaining to glyphosate by the end of 2026. On Monday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said that the EPA has repeatedly authorized Roundup labels without cancer warnings and expressed the opinion that glyphosate is not likely to cause cancer in humans. In the case of Monsanto Co. v. Durnell and the question of whether a federal…

This year, Apple’s stock has underperformed the overall market. Apple is bringing in an outsider to liven things up since it is thought to be lagging behind in artificial intelligence. On Monday afternoon, the business declared that “renowned AI researcher” Amar Subramanya had joined the team and would be the vice president of AI. According to his LinkedIn profile, he worked for Google for 16 years before spending only a few months at Microsoft (MSFT). “His deep expertise in both AI and [machine-learning] research and in integrating that research into products and features will be important to Apple’s ongoing innovation…

Elon Musk is the chief executive of Tesla and the founder of xAI. Both companies are working on artificial-intelligence projects. Elon Musk doesn’t consider himself an investor. But if he had to park some money in the world of artificial-intelligence stocks, he recently praised a pair of options. “AI and robotics are going to be very important,” Musk in a Sunday episode of Zerodha founder Nikhil Kamath’s “People by WTF” podcast. “The output of goods and services from AI and robotics is so high that it will dwarf everything else.” Musk has long portrayed Tesla (TSLA), the electric-vehicle and robotics…